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''The Seeds of Love'' is the third album by the British band Tears for Fears, released in September 1989. The album, which reportedly cost over £1 million (GBP) to produce, retained the band's epic sound while showing increasing influences ranging from jazz and blues to The Beatles, the latter of which is most evident on the hit single "Sowing the Seeds of Love". ''The Seeds of Love'' was a big international success, entering the UK Album Chart at number one and reaching the top ten in numerous other countries including the U.S. It has been certified Platinum in several territories including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands. Despite its success, it would be the last album that bandmembers Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith would work on together for over a decade. ==Production== The first song composed for the album was "Badman's Song" (originally titled "The Bad Man Song"), written during the band's 1985 world tour after Orzabal overheard two members of the tour personnel maligning him in a hotel room one night. The song was co-written by Orzabal with keyboardist Nicky Holland, who was touring with the band throughout 1985. Holland would go on to play an integral part in the writing and recording of ''The Seeds Of Love'' album, much as keyboardist Ian Stanley had on the band's previous album. Recording sessions for the album began in late 1986, with producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, but Orzabal and Smith were unhappy with the results and so the recordings were scrapped in early 1987. Chris Hughes (who had produced both the previous Tears For Fears albums) was then brought back into the fold, but again conflicts arose over the direction of the new material. Orzabal in particular had grown weary of composing and playing music using machines and sequencers, as the majority of Tears For Fears' music had been up to that point, and was striving for something more organic and a different way of working. In June 1987, the song "Sowing The Seeds of Love" was written, during the week of the UK General Election in which Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party won a third consecutive term in office (reflected in the lyric ''"Politician granny with your high ideals, have you no idea how the majority feels?"''). Hughes and longterm TFF keyboardist Ian Stanley both left the project later in 1987 citing "creative differences", though their contributions to the track remained on the final album. After two failed attempts to make the album, the band opted to produce themselves, assisted by engineer Dave Bascombe. Also in 1987, Orzabal and Smith flew over to the US to track down a hotel lounge pianist/vocalist named Oleta Adams, whom they had seen playing in Kansas City during their 1985 American tour. Hoping she could add to the organic feel by bringing a soulful warmth to their music, they invited Adams to work with them on their new album. Adams would ultimately perform on three tracks ("Woman in Chains", "Badman's Song" and "Standing On The Corner Of The Third World"), and a solo recording contract was also offered to her by the band's record company Fontana.〔 Recording recommenced in early 1988 and lasted until the summer of 1989. Featuring an assortment of respected session players including drummer Manu Katché, bassist Pino Palladino, and even a guest appearance by Phil Collins on drums, much of the album was recorded as jam sessions featuring different performances of the music and then edited down later. Some of the tracks, particularly "Badman's Song", were recorded several times in a variety of musical styles including, according to Holland, versions of the song that were reminiscent of Barry White, Little Feat and Steely Dan before settling on the jazz/gospel version that is on the finished album. Co-producer Dave Bascombe commented that the final version of the song was almost nothing like the original demo because it had gone through so many changes. The track "Swords and Knives" was originally written for the 1986 film ''Sid and Nancy'' (about the relationship between Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen), but was rejected by the filmmakers for not being "punk" enough.〔 Due to the starry cast of session players and lengthy production process, including the scrapped earlier recordings, the album reportedly cost £1 million to make (by comparison, the band's previous album ''Songs From The Big Chair'' only cost around £70,000). The final mix of the album was completed at London's Mayfair Studios in July 1989. Frustrations during the making of the album had also given rise to tensions between Orzabal and Smith, Orzabal having become something of an intricate perfectionist and Smith preoccupied with living a jetset lifestyle rather than focusing on the album (Smith's first marriage had also ended in divorce during the making of the album). At one point, Orzabal considered calling the album ''Famous Last Words'' (the title of the album's final track), commenting "it may well turn out to be our last album."〔 Indeed, the duo did not make any further recordings together for over a decade. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Seeds of Love」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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